It might have been because during bug reports and forum bug reports that it was posted and noticed immediately and some of us that do test stuff got po'd about it when it first was a problem on testing server. The most logical reasoning.

To be honest the way I see it is that the KDF is seriously lacking with story content but both fed and kdf are seriously lacking in the end game department which being I'm mostly KDF player I would say though based on the status of how things have changed it wouldn't be an awful thing to just keep the level 25 for kdf and other new factions that way as an unlock once your fed reaches that level and produce more for end game for both factions plus any more than rise about. Being that it litterally takes one day of game play to hit 50 theres no real purpose in making a whole slew of new KDF story line content maybe just something to brush up on the actual status of the empire but I'd like to see most of the focus go to the end game of both factions to speed up possibility of other new factions as well.